Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Thomas Massie, Samuel Alito, Blake Lively, Nicole Saphier and Sabrina Carpenter.
American institutions have developed a reliable technique for resolving difficult problems: declaring them over. Courts uphold laws by rewriting what they require. Legislators defeat votes by not holding them.
Litigants settle without admitting anything. The art is in who gets to define when a matter is closed—because whoever controls the language of resolution controls the outcome.struck down a majority-minority congressional map and, per Justice Elena Kagan's dissent, rendered the Voting Rights Act"all but a dead letter.
" Republicans in Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama were moving to redraw maps within days. The midterms may now run on districts remade by Alito's ruling. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the Iran war's 60-day constitutional deadline, the defense secretary told lawmakers the war powers clock"pauses or stops in a ceasefire"—a legal theory with no basis in the 1973 statute.
You’d think the guy who changed his title to Secretary of War would have a better grasp of what a war is or isn't. Trump called him"a complete and total disaster as a congressman and, frankly, as a human being," said"somebody with a warm body" could topple the Kentucky Republican in a primary after Massie consistently bucked his priorities, including opposing the One Big Beautiful Bill, leading the charge to release the Epstein files, and calling the Iran war a political distraction.
Yet Massie appears to still be standing, with the most recent polls showing him ahead before his May 19 primary. Trump's third surgeon general nominee previously said on her podcast that predecessor Casey Means hadn't finished her residency and that vaccines don't cause autism—the two objections that ended Means's nomination.
Sabrina —a nod to the Audrey Hepburn film she shares a name with—then performed a surprise duet with Stevie Nicks inside the Temple of Dendur before changing into vintage Bob Mackie for her own set. A federal judge tossed 10 of 13 claims against director Justin Baldoni—including the core sexual harassment count—before the parties settled on undisclosed terms two weeks before trial.
Hours later, she walked the Met Gala in archival Versace.used arrows to track whose stock was rising or falling in the political circus. We're reviving it in the digital age because the problem it lampooned—hyperbole and partisan certainty masquerading as insight—has only intensified. CW assigns arrows—up, down, or sideways—to the figures and forces shaping current events. The arrows don't predict the future or claim special insight.
They capture the prevailing winds of the moment, uncluttered by tribal howling. In an era when partisan media reinforces rather than questions assumptions, CW operates from the center—skeptical of left and right alike, committed to puncturing inflated reputations and recognizing overlooked truths.
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